New books: Angel Down, Beasts of Carnaval, The Conjuring of America, and more We don't just mean literary sorcery by which words summon worlds for readers, but also literal, honest-to-goodness ...

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We interviewed John King the owner of Detroit's largest book store, The John K. King's Used & Rare Books. This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City.

John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America's Independence By Willard Sterne Randall Dutton 288 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

John Martin, Devoted Publisher of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94 Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were ...

Literature is full of bold observations. See if you can match these five quotations to their sources.

Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series and a live-action movie.

The 9 Best Books by the Mitford Sisters From novels to memoirs and biographies, the infamous siblings' writing is just as noteworthy as their high-society antics.

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it ‘longer than it is.’ But ‘Paradise Lost’ reshaped English literature.

In the late 1980s, his son said, John Robbins reconciled with his father: Irv Robbins, suffering from weight issues, heart disease and diabetes, was given a copy of “Diet for a New America” by ...